Worship Aid GeneratorTheme · Catholic Wedding Readings
Covenant
The Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a covenant — a sacred binding of two people that participates in God's own covenant with his people. These readings name that covenant from its first appearance in Genesis through Jesus' direct teaching on indissolubility and the New Testament's vision of marriage as an icon of Christ and the Church. Choose from this list when you want your wedding to proclaim, in Scripture's own voice, that what God joins together is not the kind of thing that can be undone.
Readings on this theme
- First Reading (Old Testament)Genesis 1:26-28, 31aMale and female he created them
- First Reading (Old Testament)Genesis 2:18-24The two of them become one body
- First Reading (Old Testament)Jeremiah 31:31-32a, 33-34aI will make a new covenant
- Gospel ReadingMatthew 19:3-6What God has joined together
- Gospel ReadingMark 10:6-9They are no longer two but one flesh